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The scientific instrument maker beat analysts' estimates in the second quarter. The payment processing company reported greater fourth-quarter revenue than analysts had anticipated. Energy companies lagged the rest of the market Wednesday as oil prices wobbled.

How major US stock market indexes fared Wednesday U.S. stocks rose slightly Wednesday as Urban Outfitters and Target helped retailers rally. The Nasdaq composite added 12.10 points, or 0.2 percent, to 6,345.11.

Prosecutors believe a man stood shot an acquaintance in the back Saturday night outside a Central District gas station, then stood over his body to shoot him some more.

The 5.6 million international visitors who arrived this past January represented the first monthly increase in inbound international visits to the U.S. since June 2016, the agency said in a release in Washington D.C. Despite the decreases in 2016, travel and tourism was the largest services export for the United States last year, comprising 33 percent of services exports and 11 percent of exports overall. Some in the travel industry worried earlier this year that tourism might decline in response... Читать дальше...

Trump should have traveled to Charlottesville and stood with opponents of racism, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. argued on Wednesday.  T

The story presented no evidence that Trump or Putin had any involvement in the move and Trump has no known links to the site. [...] mid-day, the site continued to receive performance and security services from San Francisco-based Cloudflare Inc., protecting it from denial of service attacks. A company statement called some of the content on Cloudfare's network "repugnant." but said withdrawing its services would not remove the website from the internet, just make it slower and more vulnerable to attack. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt in millions of dollars. The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit Aug. 15$19,808,747Statutory debt limit$19,808,772Total public debt outstanding Aug. 15$19,844,740Operating balance Aug. 15$100,391Interest fiscal year 2017 thru July$249,302Interest same period pvs fiscal year$231,418Deficit fiscal year 2017 thru July-$566,022Deficit same period pvs fiscal year-$511,980Receipts fiscal year... Читать дальше...

The machines use sensors to scan a person as they walk through, searching for firearms and explosive compounds, said Dave Sotero, a Metro spokesman. Metro is conducting the pilot program to evaluate the accuracy and capacity of the portable machines and determine if the scanners could become permanent fixtures in the Los Angeles transit system. The idea is that you have a continuous flow of people through the security system without causing a backlog and causing people to miss their trains. Similar to airport checkpoints... Читать дальше...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first-time users as part of a wide-ranging effort to curb an epidemic affecting millions of Americans. [...] the new program from Express Scripts is drawing criticism from the American Medical Association, the largest association of physicians and medical students in the U.S., which believes treatment plans should be left to doctors and their patients. Express Scripts... Читать дальше...

Costco has not been having the best PR week, between the live scorpion found on their bananas and the $19 million judgement against them in the Tiffany & Co. ring case. Unfortunately, their golf ball lawsuit is also catching up with them.

Taco Bell -- home of the naked chicken chalupa, Doritos taco shell, double decker taco, waffle taco and biscuit taco -- has reinvented the taco shell once again.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slightly higher Wednesday as Urban Outfitters and Target climb. Stocks gave up most of their earlier gains after a group of CEOs, including the heads of 3M and Campbell Soup, said they were leaving a manufacturing jobs group over comments about racism made by President Donald Trump. The furor could create more obstacles for Trump's pro-business agenda of tax cuts and infrastructure spending. Clothing and accessories retailer Urban Outfitters had a better second quarter than Wall Street expected... Читать дальше...

The Sundance sensation "Patti Cake$" may flow with formulaic beats but it's got spirit for miles (eight of them, at least) and features one of the best mother-daughter relationships of the year. Later, her best friend and optimistic music partner Hareesh (Siddharth Dhananjay) will, from behind his pharmacy counter, announce her arrival on the store PA system, as she strolls down the toothpaste aisle, with the kind of grandiose pomp traditionally reserved for James Brown. The distance between dream and reality has long been measured ... Читать дальше...

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian authorities have ordered a recall of a cancer medication that was put on the market without proper approval. Melphalan is a commonly injected in a solution to treat certain bone marrow cancers. But government medical authorities said Wednesday that "Melphalan Koanaa" — which comes from India — was packaged in Austria by a local company and marketed without official approval. Austria's food and drug agency said Wednesday that initial results from analyzing the medication suggest it is safe. Читать дальше...

At the July meeting, officials voted to keep the Fed's benchmark rate unchanged in a range of 1 percent to 1.25 percent. Officials worried about low inflation said that the Fed should delay any further rate hikes until it had greater assurance that the slowdown stemmed from temporary factors and that prices would climb more quickly in coming months. [...] other officials worried that with the labor market already at full employment, waiting too long to raise rates again ran the risk of overshooting on the 2 percent inflation target. Читать дальше...

A statement on the "March on Google" website says Saturday's protests were being canceled because of threats from what it called "Alt Left terrorist groups." The planned events in Pittsburgh and eight other locations were in reaction to Google's firing of a software engineer who argued that biological differences helped explain why women are underrepresented at the company.

Paramount Pictures said Wednesday that production will go on hiatus while Cruise makes a full recovery. Cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt for the film during its London-based shoot.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Diagnosing if a tick bite caused Lyme or another disease can be difficult but scientists are developing a new way to do it early — using a "signature" of molecules in patients' blood. It's still highly experimental, but initial studies suggest the novel tool just might uncover early-stage Lyme disease more accurately than today's standard test, researchers reported Wednesday. [...] it could tell the difference between two tick-borne diseases with nearly identical early symptoms. Читать дальше...

Alex Beall, an Oregon National Guard member who fought in the war in Afghanistan, is being deployed along with more than 100 fellow guard members to take on a different foe: A wildfire at the state's iconic Crater Lake. Beall, who is a FedEx driver from the city of Medford, said he preferred his combat deployment to firefighting. [...] after they return to domestic life, many miss the sense of urgency and purpose, the adrenaline-fueled rush and magnified experience of combat and the brotherhood among comrades in arms. Читать дальше...

State governments have sought to capture sales taxes lost to internet retailers, though they have struggled with a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that found for a state to collect sales tax from retailer, the retailer must have a physical presence within state borders. Amazon had a five-year moratorium on taxes, the state wrote in the complaint, giving the company "fair warning that its sales of tangible personal property in South Carolina subjected it to South Carolina's taxing jurisdiction." According... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Six months into her tenure as head of the Small Business Administration, Linda McMahon sees a split among small business owners — they are increasingly optimistic, she says, but many are held back by their inability to get loans or find the right workers for jobs that are staying open. Jobs for skilled workers like carpenters, electricians and welders are going unfilled, as are technology positions like computer code writers, McMahon said. Companies that provide services like heating... Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — Officials at the Scottish Parliament say the legislature's IT systems are under sustained cyberattack but have not been breached. Parliament chief executive Paul Grice said Wednesday that the system was under "brute force cyberattack," with hackers making repeated attempts to crack passwords.

A spokeswoman says Southwest is giving extra frequent-flyer points to A-List and A-List Preferred customers who didn't get priority boarding in the last few days. Priority privileges can mean the difference between an aisle seat up front or a middle seat farther back.

The Trump administration and other NAFTA critics say the agreement encouraged manufacturers to move south of the border to take advantage of lower-wage Mexican labor. The U.S. trade representative said he wanted to change the pact to require that duty-free NAFTA products contain more content made within the trade bloc and specifically in the United States. [...] Stephen Orava, partner and head of the trade law practice at King & Spalding, said that changing NAFTA's "rules of origin" to promote... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded $4.9 million to six universities and a nonprofit to help bolster early warning systems for earthquakes along the West Coast. And the University of Washington is one of them.